holy saturday

By Hannah Bowman Holy Saturday liturgically commemorates Jesus’s descent into hell, or descent to the dead: an ambiguously interpreted tradition that found its way from...

The paradox of the Paschal Mystery is that both the silent suffering and the first celebration of Easter are the truth of Holy Saturday.

Resurrection Letters by Andrew Peterson seeks to draw the listener into the events at the heart of the Christian faith.

Our hopes for the Church do not rest on human perfection but on divine grace.

We are taught that Christ tore down the gates of Hell. My memorable trek by Hekla, the Icelandic “gateway of Hell” has left me convinced that when he did this, not only were the souls of the faithful released, but so too was beauty. And like those souls, beauty so redeemed can never again be contained.

Gregory compared the Devil to a hungry fish, caught on the hook of Christ’s deity when he was enticed to swallow it by the bait of Christ’s flesh.

Sam Keyes responds to a question submitted to the Covenant blog regarding the harrowing of hell.